What is FUTURES
FUTURES is an open source urban growth model designed to address the regional-scale ecological and environmental impacts of urbanization; it is one of the few land change models that explicitly captures the spatial structure of development in response to user-specified scenarios. See also official website with list of publications, manual pages and tutorials.
What's Changed
New major release of FUTURES brings a climate forcing component that models flood impact on future development and integrates human response to flooding using a response function that relates adaptive capacity and level of flooding damage sustained. This component does not have to be used, in that case the simulation behaves the same way as in FUTURES v2. More information on how to use this component is coming. Eventually, this version will replace v2 in GRASS GIS addons.
Compatibility between v2 and v3:
Module r.futures.pga has been renamed to r.futures.simulation. This release includes a wrapper module that ensures tutorials are still working.
Also note that column names in potential file header are now expected to match the names of the predictor rasters, but the order can be different.